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Police Interrogation - Bullying?
I've just read/seen/heard about far too many cases where some dick cop will interrogate someone and get a confession, only for the confession to be recanted or the case be proven that the person who confessed wasn't the one who did it after all.
There's a lot of psychological reasons that explain why people give false confessions, but from what I have seen, many of these interrogators deny the person's request for a lawyer, deprive them of food/drink/sleep, and one case where they wouldn't let him go to the bathroom so he had to pee in empty soda cans.
Much of the time, I see asshole cops who go above and beyond their power just to get a confession. They show photos and keep asking them stuff that makes people actually BELIEVE they committed a crime they didn't do.
It'll be like me asking if my roomate ate my sandwich, and me bugging him and threatening him and yelling at him saying "C'mon, you know you ate it" until he caves. Bad example, but to simplify...
So, do you consider much of that process as bullying, or do you feel that police are justified in interrogation, especially to combine with forensic evidence?
For me, where I'm from, the way I've seen cops act in any city I've been in, for every nice, spirit-of-the-law friendly cop, there's at least 5 dick cops who love being cocky a-holes just because they were given a badge and a gun. In terms of this thread, I'd have to say they're bullies.
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